Re^3: [OT] FTP user permissions

Unfortunately, Plesk only allows SFTP for the system user.

When an FTP account is created in Plesk, it doesn't seem to create an account in the normal way. It appears to be some kind of alias. When I use id username I do not get username:username but instead the sub account and a Plesk defined group.

What a mess. For me, that alone would be an argument not to use Plesk.

Alexander

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Re^4: [OT] FTP user permissions by Bod (Parson) on Dec 29, 2024 at 00:33 UTC
What a mess. For me, that alone would be an argument not to use Plesk For many years, I struggled with shared hosting. Much as I knew I really needed a better solution (read VPS) I was very concerned that having full access could easily mean I could break something! Also, if something is wrong, it's down to me to fix it... The move was forced on me when UK2 changed away from cPanel and broke every one of our sites because they stopped Perl working in the manner it previously was. So we decided to move, and over a weekend, I worked continuously to move all our essential production sites to a VPS. That VPS comes with Plesk. Although I could use a different management platform, it seems easier to use the one they provide. We don't currently have the luxury of a staging or test server so whatever I do has to be done without risking our production environment... There are two major issues that I haven't been able to sort out. FTP access and `.htaccess` files - as soon as I enable `RewriteEngine On` I get a 403 error, so we have lost all our SEO friendly vanity URLs. If my Linux knowledge was good enough, or I thought I could get it good enough, I might drop Plesk and configure the server manually but that's not an option.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: [OT] FTP user permissions
by Bod (Parson) on Dec 29, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

What a mess. For me, that alone would be an argument not to use Plesk

For many years, I struggled with shared hosting. Much as I knew I really needed a better solution (read VPS) I was very concerned that having full access could easily mean I could break something! Also, if something is wrong, it's down to me to fix it...

The move was forced on me when UK2 changed away from cPanel and broke every one of our sites because they stopped Perl working in the manner it previously was. So we decided to move, and over a weekend, I worked continuously to move all our essential production sites to a VPS. That VPS comes with Plesk. Although I could use a different management platform, it seems easier to use the one they provide.

We don't currently have the luxury of a staging or test server so whatever I do has to be done without risking our production environment...

There are two major issues that I haven't been able to sort out. FTP access and .htaccess files - as soon as I enable RewriteEngine On I get a 403 error, so we have lost all our SEO friendly vanity URLs.

If my Linux knowledge was good enough, or I thought I could get it good enough, I might drop Plesk and configure the server manually but that's not an option.

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